FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Open Sound System v3.9 Released.
CULVER CITY, CA, June 1, 1998: 4Front Technologies is announcing the
availability of Open Sound System(TM)(OSS) version 3.9 for:
o Linux,
o FreeBSD
o BSD/OS
o SCO Open Server Release5
o UnixWare 2.1
o UnixWare 7
o Solaris x86 2.5.1
o Solaris x86 2.6
o Solaris SPARC/PCI 2.6
o Lynx RealTime
o VxWorks
OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards
for the above operating systems. These drivers support digital audio,
MIDI, Synthesizers and mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers
comply with the Open Sound System API specification.
OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of
sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple. OSS
supports over 200 brand name sound cards. OSS drivers provide
automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI
audio soundcards and support for full duplex audio.
"v3.9 represents the culmination of over a year's worth of developement
to add new soundcards, full duplex support for all soundcards, major bug
fixes, support for PCI sound cards and the development of SoftOSS",
said Mr. Hannu Savolainen, Vice President of Engineering.
4Front is also announcing new features and improvements in its
SoftOSS(TM) technology. SoftOSS provides a software based wave-table
engine called Virtual Synth that can render MIDI and MOD music files
without requiring any special wave-table hardware. Any 16bit soundcard
can now playback MIDI music via wave-table synthesis.
A new component of SoftOSS called Virtual Mixer also provides real-time
mixing of up to 8 stereo audio channels. The Virtual Mixer will enable
users to run various audio applications to output sound at the same
time. It is particularly useful when one needs to hear audio output from
browsers, window managers, streaming audio, and games simultaneously.
4Front Technologies is also pleased in announcing the formation of the
Applications Group which will be responsible for developing audio
applications with exciting graphics and features. OSS will now come
bundled with a new OSSplayer capable of handing wav, au, MOD, MP3 and
various other file formats. OSSplayer will have a feature rich GUI with
real time spectrum analyzer and waveform display functions as well as
playlists and a graphic equalizers.
For more information and to download a free 7 day evaluation version,
visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.opensound.com
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Contact: Dev Mazumdar
4Front Technologies
4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F
Culver City, CA 90232
USA.
Tel: (310) 202 8530 E-mail: info@opensound.com
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